RA 6969

DOCUMENTS

SMR

Within 15 days after each quarter

Emergency Contingency Plan

Spill Response Plan

Personnel Training Plan

HW Inventory

Manifest Form

Executive Order 192 Section 16

"Creation of the Environmental Management Bureau"

SOCIAL

Equitable

Bearable

VISION

A nation empowered to protect our finite sources, attuned to the pursuit of sustainable development, for a clean and healthy environment that enhances the Filipino quality of life for the present and future generations

'Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'

(1987, Brundtland)

Sustainable Development

ECONOMY

ENVIRONMENT

Viable

MISSION

To restore, protect, and enhance environmental quality towards good public health, environmental integrity, and economic viability.

DAO 92-29: The Implementing Rules and Regulations

Republic Act 6969

TITLE III

TITLE II

DAO 2004-36

DAO 92-29: The Implementing Rules and Regulations

Revised Standards and Procedures for the Management of Hazardous Waste (Revising DAO 1992-29)

Toxic Substances (Chemicals) Management

Hazardous Waste Management

DAO 2013-22

Revised Standards and Procedures for the Management of Hazardous Waste

(Revising DAO 2004-36)

TITLE II

TITLE III

Toxic Substances (Chemicals) Management

Hazardous Waste Management

PICCS

CCO

Chemical Control Order

Rule of Thumb:

Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances

• Prohibit, limit or regulate the USE, MANUFACTURE, IMPORT, EXPORT, TRANSPORT, PROCESSING, STORAGE, POSSESSION & SALE of chemicals and chemical substances that DENR determines to regulate its use, phase-out or ban due to its serious risks and adverse effects

• Database of all existing chemicals in the Philippines
• Info include CAS No., Chemical Names, common name
• 46,967 chemicals and substances

PCL

PMPIN / SQI

"From Cradle to Grave" --- ("From Womb to Tomb")

The generator has the responsibility UNTIL THE WASTE HAS BEEN DISPOSED OF properly in an environmentally sound way or liable in case of spill or illegal disposal

Priority Chemical List

Pre-Manufacture/Pre-Importation Notification

Small-Quantity Importation

• List of chemicals that are determined to pose SIGNIFICANT risk to human and the environment (e.g., acute or chronic toxic effects - carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, persistency, bio-accumulation
• 48 are currently listed including formalin, mercaptan, etc.

• Process applicable to NEW CHEMICALS NOT LISTED in the PICCS
• PMPIN certificates are secured from EMB Central Office (>1,000 kgs)
• SQI are secured from EMB Regional Offices (< 1,000 kgs)

Thirteen (13) Categories

WHAT ARE HAZARDOUS WASTES?

A101: Wastes with Cyanide

WHEN DO YOU SAY A WASTE IS HAZARDOUS?

without any safe

Exempted Wastes: Household wastes such as garbage under RA 9003 except special wastes

B201 to B299: Acid Wastes (pH less than or equal to 2.0)

usage

---- has at least one of the following characteristics

C301 to C399: Alkali Wastes (pH more than or equal to 12.5)

D401 to D499: Wastes with Inorganic Chemicals (Se, As, Ba, Cd, Cr, Pb, Hg, F, Others)

• substances that are without any safe commercial, industrial, agricultural, economic usage and are shipped, transported, or brought from the country of origin for dumping or disposal into or in transit through any part of the territory of the Philippines
• by-products, side-products, process residues, spent reaction media, contaminated plant or equipment or substances from manufacturing operations and as consumer discards of manufactured products which present unreasonable risk and/or injury to health and safety and to environment

spent

E501 to E599: Reactive Chemical Wastes (oxidizing agent, reducing agent)

F601 to F699: Inks/Dyes/Pigments/Paint/Latex/Adhesives/Organic Sludge

G703 to G799: Waste Organic Solvents

Ignitability

(Temperature)

Toxicity

(TCLP)

Corrosivity

(pH)

Reactivity

(Explosive)

H802: Organic Wastes (Grease wastes)

I101 to I104: Oil (Industrial, vegetable, tallow, oil-contaminated materials)

J201: Containers (Used to contain toxic substances or hazardous wastes)

K301 to K303: Stabilized Wastes (solidified, encapsulated)

COMMON HAZARDOUS WASTES

RA 6969

L401 to L404: Organic Wastes (Solid wastes listed in PCL, ODS, PCBs)

M501 to M507: Miscellaneous Wastes (Pathological, asbestos, pharma, pesticides, POPs, WEEE, Special wastes)

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

Containers previously containing toxic substances

Busted Fluorescent Lamps (BFLs)

Pathological or Infectious Wastes

Used oil (industrial/commercial)

Used Lead-Acid Batteries (ULAB)

LARGE GENERATOR

• HWG Registration
• Full-time PCO
• Quarterly Reporting
• Storage & Labeling
• Storage Time Limit: 6 months
• Manifest System
• Contingency Planning
• Training

CATEGORIES of HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATORS

SMALL GENERATOR

MEDIUM GENERATOR

• HWG Registration
• Full-time PCO
• Annual Reporting
• Storage & Labeling
• Storage Time Limit: 1 year
• Manifest System
• Contingency Planning
• Training

• HWG Registration
• Full-time PCO
• Semi-Annual Reporting
• Storage & Labeling
• Storage Time Limit: 1 year
• Manifest System
• Contingency Planning
• Training

HW GENERATOR'S RESPONSIBILITY

Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990

• Identify HW generated
• Designate a full-time Pollution Control Officer
• Register online
• Submit quarterly reports
• Implement proper hazardous waste management

• Storage Facility
• Pre-Transport requirements
• Use of registered transporters and TSD Facilities
• Use of manifests in transporting HW offsite
• Confirmation of completion of treatment or disposal

Accessible

HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE FACILITY

REQUIREMENTS

Enclosed but adequately ventilated

Floors are impermeable to liquids; constructed as to retain spillages

Properly secured

Drums should be stored upright on pallets

Monitored regularly for leaks

Proper waste segregation

Emergency Response Equipment/Spill Kit

LABELING REQUIREMENTS

HAZARDOUS WASTES

TOXIC SUBSTANCES

NUCLEAR WASTES

10 x 10 cm

20 x 30 cm

PENALTIES

• Global Production of chemicals has increased from 1M tons in 1930s to 400M tons at present

• Only 20M known substances

• About 100,000 registered and 10,000 are marketed in quantities or volumes > 10T

• Certain chemicals caused serious damages to HUMAN and the ENVIRONMENT

Administrative Violation

Fines (PhP)

Health effects of Mercury

Water, biota

Health effects of Dioxin

Health effects of Arsenic

Health effects of PCB

Electrical goods (flourescent bulbs, switches), electronics, fungicides

Disorder of central nervous system, psychoses

Numbness, deformity, death

Food Chain

Water, Food Chain

Thru Air and Water

Persistent, probably carcinogenic

Gastrointestinal disorder, lower-limb disorder, skin cancer

Pesticides

Ore smelting

Electronics

Dielectric, heat transfer, & hydaulic fluid

Impurity of manufacture of trichlorophenols used in various biocides

Damage to kidney, liver, & nervous system; powerful teratogen; possibly carcinogenic

Liver cancer

Chloracne

Freya Ross in 2002 four years after removal of amalgam and detox

Freya Ross in 1998 after having a tooth drilled with mercury amalgam

Failure to provide appropriate information to DENR during Registration

50, 000.00

Submission of documents containing false information

50, 000.00

Failure to comply with reporting requirements under the law

50, 000.00

Failure to comply with the conditions of a permit except those specified herein

50, 000.00

Failure to comply with labeling requirements

50, 000.00

10, 000.00

Violation of any of the provisions of the Governing Rules and Regulations

GENERATOR

50, 000.00

Failure to submit completed copy of the hazardous waste manifest form to DENR

Performs the functions of TSD Facility without the appropriate permit

50, 000.00